Overview
- Emergency teams found the two-year-old boy dead at his mother’s La Grand-Combe home on Saturday night, prompting the Alès public prosecutor to open a murder investigation for a minor under 15.
- The prosecutor, Abdelkrim Grini, said the child had bruises and that the mother's statements did not match medical findings about the time of death, which raised suspicion.
- The 20-year-old mother has been arrested and placed in police custody while investigators from the brigade de recherche d'Alès lead inquiries.
- A forensic autopsy is scheduled at the Nîmes medico-legal institute on Monday morning to determine the child’s cause and time of death and to guide possible charges.
- Investigators located the child's three-year-old twin sisters at their father's home and are checking whether the father was present at the time of the death as the probe continues.